As per the statement at: https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/34/page/93-covid-19-situation
OARC has been tracking the Covid-19 situation, and exploring contingencies should we not be able to proceed as planned with OARC33. At this point in time, we are still working to our plans to have the workshop in Paris on 9/10 May, but the situation is very fluid, and a lot could change in the 9 weeks between now and then. OARC33 is being co-located with, and hosted by ICANN, in conjunction with their IDD, RoW and IDS events. So whether ICANN proceeds with these will be a strong determinator of whether OARC33 goes ahead in Paris or not. Clearly ICANN will have a well-informed view of the practicalities of running remote-only meetings after ICANN67 has taken place remotely this week, and we will be consulting and meeting with them on their plans for GDD/IDS once that has completed. We've looked at a number of fallback contingencies, and while there are some other options, it looks like the most feasible are: - to cancel OARC33 in Paris in May, and move the submitted content to OARC34 in Milan in October. - to conduct a remote-only meeting. The state of recent OARC Board discussions on this is tending towards the first option, but we have reviewed internally and confirmed that we could conduct a remote workshop with the resources available to us, given 2-3 weeks notice and preparation, if the community feels there is value in doing so. Either way it makes sense to continue to solicit content for OARC33. We expect that ICANN will be working with the local authorities in Paris, the venue, and professional sources of advice; and it is our intention to work closely with them in deciding whether OARC33 proceeds there as planned. Once again, we are grateful for ICANN's support of our workshops. We believe an appropriate point to make a go/no-go decision on a physical workshop for OARC33, so people can plan or cancel travel etc, is no later than 5 weeks before, i.e. around the 1st April, and the OARC Board has scheduled a meeting shortly before that to make this decision, should events not overtake matters meantime. We will communicate that decision no later than 2nd April. We'd be grateful for input from workshop participants' preferences on the options available, but in the meantime if folks could refrain from engaging in "armchair epidemiology" threads on this list I think everyone would appreciate it :-) Keith OARC President On 2020-03-09 14:50, Shumon Huque wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 2:41 PM Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday, 9 March 2020 14:44:09 UTC Shumon Huque wrote: > > ** We have extended the submissions deadline for the 33rd DNS-OARC > > ** workshop to March 19th 2020 (midnight CEST). > > > > The 33rd DNS-OARC Workshop will take place at the Marriott Rive Gauche > > Hotel & Conference Center in Paris, France on May 9th and 10th > 2020. > > Early May is going to be a very bad time: > > https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236095180459003909.html > > i suggest ICANN and DNSOARC be ready to convert to virtual for this. > > Yeah, I'm aware that contingencies are being actively discussed. But > I'll defer to OARC and ICANN staff to officially comment. _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations
